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Serena Williams in another final; Federer and Nadal to face off
A week out from the French Open, Serena Williams is one victory away from winning her fourth straight tournament. The top-ranked American overcame an early break of her serve to ease past Romanian qualifier Simona Halep, 6-3, 6-0, Saturday and reach the...
Tags: Simona Halep, Nicolas Sarkozy, Ryder Cup, Auto Racing, Victoria Azarenka
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ESPN to take over U.S. Open tennis rights from CBS in 2015
After holding serve for 45 years, CBS has lost the rights to the nation's premier tennis tournament. ESPN on Thursday said it has clinched an 11-year deal with the United States Tennis Assn. for the exclusive TV rights, beginning in 2015, for the annual...
Tags: PGA Tour, Media Industry, Satellite and Cable Service, Southeastern Conference, ESPN2 (tv network)
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Baseball is diamond in the rough to black players at Gardena Serra
On a sunny Tuesday afternoon on a cluttered street in Gardena, some very big and skilled athletes are hanging out on a concrete basketball court, bouncing around underneath rusted backboards and chain nets, acting out a typical inner-city scene, with...
Tags: Social Issues, Jackie Robinson, San Francisco Giants, Sports, Los Angeles Dodgers
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Review: Intimate portrait of 'Venus and Serena'
 What could be more improbable than the linked triumph of Venus and Serena Williams? African American sisters born 15 months apart, raised in the gritty environs of Compton, these women not only took on the genteel, predominantly white sport of...
Tags: Serena Williams, Venus and Serena (movie), Wimbledon Championships, Entertainment, Movies
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Kyle Busch wins Nationwide race, Kurt Busch Sprint Cup wins pole
Kyle Busch took the lead from Joey Logano 18 laps from the end to win his fifth Nationwide race this season and second in three years at Darlington Raceway on Friday night. The victory also capped a dominant showing by the Busch boys at the South...
Tags: Doug Collins, Novak Djokovic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ekaterina Makarova, Elliott Sadler
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Oregon tennis player Alex Rovello drowns after diving accident
University of Oregon junior Alex Rovello drowned Saturday after failing to surface following a 60-foot dive into Tamolitch Falls in Willamette National Forest in western Oregon. Friends and bystanders tried to rescue the tennis player when he failed...
Tags: Oregon Ducks, Telecommunication Service
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Matt Kenseth wins Southern 500
Matt Kenseth passed his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch with 13 laps to go to win his first Southern 500 on Saturday night at Darlington, S.C. Busch had the strongest car for much of the race and led for 265 of the 367 laps at Darlington Raceway....
Tags: Drag Racing, Juan Pablo Montoya, Kevin Harvick, Rafael Bejarano, National Football League
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Tennis and writing a love match for Pomona-Pitzer freshman
By the time she was 10, Samantha Mae Coyiuto was a published author in the Philippines. By the time she was 16, she had four children's books published. Now she's 18 and goes by just Mae and is a student at Pomona-Pitzer, where she plays for the women's...
Tags: Roger Federer, Flight (movie), National Collegiate Athletic Association, Authors, College Sports
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison makes Malibu real estate his own
On busy Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, some well-kept facades conceal a secret. Behind the Mediterranean with wooden doors, the white stucco two-story with a red tile roof, the long wall obscuring a three-structure compound, hides a singular,...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Services and Shopping, Realty, Yahoo! Inc., Real Estate Buyers
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Venus Williams drinks Jamba Juice in Santa Monica
Tennis star Venus Williams was in Santa Monica on Thursday, doing fitness demonstrations, leading regular, less-in-shape folks in some exercise and promoting Jamba Juice because she likes to be able to add wheatgrass shots to her juice. Since announcing...
Tags: U.S. Open (tennis), Venus Williams, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Wimbledon Championships
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California: Silverado offers sports camp for kids
Here’s a vacation that can keep two generations happy: a stay in California’s Napa Valley wine region combined with a daily sports program for teens and pre-teens. The 1,200-acre Silverado Resort & Spa, 50 miles northeast of San Francisco,...
Tags: Golf, Personal Service, Sports, Hotels and Accommodations, Travel
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Al Jazeera not interested in playing ball with Tennis Channel
Cross Al Jazeera off the list of potential suitors for the Tennis Channel. The Qatar-based media giant was mentioned by the New York Post in a story last week as wanting to buy the Tennis Channel. However, a senior executive with knowledge of Al...
Tags: Bain Capital, LLC, Al Jazeera (tv network), Media Industry, Al Gore, Federal Communications Commission
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